Akaki Tsereteli State University is hosting a forum on the drafting of the 2019 budget of Kutaisi city Municipality, which is attended by citizens, non-governmental organizations, heads of Kutaisi City Hall and the deputy mayors. Kutaisi Deputy Mayors: Yuza Ugulava and Nino Tvaltvadze informed the forum participants about the priorities of the city's 2019 budget and called on them to be maximally involved in the budget drafting process.
The purpose of the Population Forum is to ensure an open dialogue between the representatives of the local self-government and the population. The aim of this activity is to enable the population of Kutaisi to identify the problems in the city, as they will be able to solve the latter together with government officials.
During the 2018 Forum, the population of Kutaisi will have the opportunity to work in three directions based on their own interests:
A) Infrastructure projects
B) Social projects
C) youth projects, culture, sports;
"The purpose of today's meeting was to ensure the involvement of the population in the budget planning process, so we presented the main parameters of how much we are going to spend according to priorities, Jerry was to provide citizens with important initiatives for us. As you know, Kutaisi city Municipality has mainly defined 2 main directions in the document of priorities: infrastructure and social. "It is important that youth issues as well as infrastructure and social issues are reflected openly and, most importantly in this process, citizens' initiatives are defined in the budget," said the Deputy Mayor of Kutaisi Nino Tvaltvadze.
After the submission of projects by the facilitators of the section, the population will be given 3 colored stickers and each of them will have the opportunity to vote for only one project they want in each section. The initiatives that will accumulate a majority of votes will be submitted to the Board of Advisors for further processing and will be submitted to the Mayor as a recommendation.